Adding a Pi-Hole DNS server to my home networkI recently repurposed an old but still pretty sturdy samsung laptop as a Pi-Hole DNS Server on my home network and so far (just a couple of days in), it seems to be working pretty well. The laptop is running Ubuntu Server and is a headless/gui-less m...Oct 1, 2023 · 2 min readblog.robertvigil.com
Soldering the GPIO header onto my new Raspberry Pi ZeroI picked up a Raspberry Pi Zero and a case kit that included the GPIO header (along with a power cable and some other nifty adapters). This is a really cool little computer that only has 512 MB of RAM, but it's still plenty capable. It's my favorite ...Aug 27, 2023 · 2 min readblog.robertvigil.com
Raspberry Pi 4 & Raspberry Pi PicoPicked up a couple of Raspberry Pi's this weekend to play around with. One is about the most minimal Pi there is, the Raspberry Pi Pico WH (with only 256k ram, but with WiFi/Bluetooth), and the other about the most maxed out Pi, the Raspberry Pi 4 Mo...Aug 24, 2023 · 3 min readblog.robertvigil.com
ZeroTier Home VPNI've recently been playing around with setting up a home VPN (virtual private network) using ZeroTier, which is a free, widely used, and longstanding VPN service. I've gotten 11 devices networked (ZeroTier provides client software for all of these de...Aug 22, 2023 · 2 min readblog.robertvigil.com